[ SECRET POST #2891 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2891 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Final Fantasy XIII]


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03.
[Cross Ange]


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04.
[Wentworth/Prisoner: Cell Block H]


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05.
[Grant Morrison]


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06.
[Amy Jo Johnson/Power Rangers]


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07.
[Pacific Rim]


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08.
[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]


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09.
[Parks and Recreation]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 031 secrets from Secret Submission Post #413.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[dethtoll]

Male DC fan that isn't me detected.

I don't like Damian at all and Batman Inc. was impossibly compressed and incomprehensible, but Morrison's run on Batman was otherwise superb and Final Crisis (if we include that as part of the Batman mythos) remains my favourite DC event.

It's not my favourite run on Batman (Alan Grant, Greg Rucka, Scott Snyder ftw) but I absolutely love Morrison's work when his "I snorted China Mieville's skin cells" style is applied properly. Multiversity has been completely insane; Pax Americana is proof that if anyone has the right to rewrite Watchmen (and let's be real here, it deserves a rewrite) it's Grant Morrison.

Frank Miller is by far the worst thing to happen to Batman and to comics at large. There's no getting around the damage he did.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do things deserve a rewrite just because you are pompous?

[dethtoll]

I'm not going to dignify that question with an answer. Fuck off wanker.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not very nice at all.

[dethtoll]

Neither is calling me pompous and giving me shit up and down this thread. You are a joy disease. Go away.

[(Anonymous)]

That seems strange to tell a joy disease to go away. I would like to spread a joy disease personally.

[(Anonymous)]

just so we're clear, you have brain damage, right?

[(Anonymous)]

For wanting to spread joy? Well, that says some sad things, nonny.

[(Anonymous)]

GAWWW

[(Anonymous)]

Are you going to circle your fingers at your hip and try to get me to look at them?

[(Anonymous)]

*tips fedora*

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm female actually. :) Morrison's run on Batman was for the most part enjoyable, but he's stuck the character and the Joker in an over the top characterization rut. Miller is awful too, of course, but Bat comics were still decent after his stuff.

Re: OP

[dethtoll]

You're seriously telling me that Snyder's Batman isn't great? I'm not a fan of the Court of Owls arc, but Death of the Family alone was the best, most disturbing Batman story I've read since David Lapham's City of Crime. And Zero Year gets big points for retconning the fuck out of The Killing Joke. (Too bad they kept the worst part of that story -- Barbara getting shot.) Let's be real here, if anyone's responsible for the Joker being anything more than a mostly harmless tickster, it's Alan Moore and Jim Starlin. Not Grant Morrison, not Scott Snyder. Not anyone else.

The reason I like Morrison's take on Batman is precisely the reason Morrison made Batman that way -- compared to the rest of the JLA he's just a guy in a suit, right? (It's why Guy Gardner's never taken him seriously.) Morrison likes big concepts and it's clear that he views the Justice League as a pantheon of sorts (much like his treatment of the New Gods) so how does Batman fit in? By being not just a prime specimen of humanity but by going beyond that. He doesn't have superhuman strength, but he's trained to peak perfection, but that's not his real skill -- his real skill is the use of his mind, he's a master tactician and knows the best way to place people where they need to be to be most effective. Superman may be the face of the team, Wonder Woman may be its fist, but Batman is the brains behind the action.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Scott Snyder isn't a bad writer per se, but he doesn't write the Bruce Wayne and Gotham City that I grew up on. I'm also damn tired of the always right super-human Batgod and Villain Sue Joker. I wasn't impressed with Death of the Family either. The idea of the Joker removing his face and wearing it as mask just made me roll my eyes.
I suppose we can agree to disagree on this.

Re: OP

[dethtoll]

The thing is that the face thing WASN'T Snyder's idea. But he had to make do with what he had because of Tony Daniel's awful Detective #1.